MAAS archives
44 posts
MAAS 3.3 is now available
By Jon Thor Kristinsson, 9 March 2023
In this blog, you will learn about some of the new features now available in the latest MAAS release.
Join our Ubuntu circle
By Bill Wear, 20 October 2022
The Ubuntu circle: We are because you are The MAAS 3.3 Beta 1 release is out. You should take a look. Normally, a blog like this would wait for the final...
Understanding bare metal Kubernetes
By Anton Smith, 27 January 2022
Bare metal Kubernetes is a powerful set of technologies that builds on the best ideas behind the public and private cloud, yet abstracts away some toilsome...
Linux deployment tools: MAAS 3.1 for hot metal
By Bill Wear, 13 December 2021
Back a few months ago, we did a feature poll on our MAAS forum, and the most-requested new feature turned out to be “Recommission/rescan a machine after it...
Announcing MAAS 3.1: bare metal cloud gets easier
By Bill Wear, 6 December 2021
We are happy to announce that MAAS 3.1 has been released. Bare metal provisioning just got even easier! MAAS 3.1 brings some of the most frequently-requested...
Provisioning bare metal Kubernetes clusters with Spectro Cloud and MAAS
By Anton Smith, 8 October 2021
Bare metal Kubernetes (K8s) is now easier than ever. Spectro Cloud has recently posted an article about integrating Kubernetes with MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service....
Commissioning deployed machines: Request granted
By Bill Wear, 2 September 2021
We want to make it possible to deploy MAAS in an existing datacenter, and have it keep track of machines that already have a deployed workload — without...
About MAAS 3.0 and LXD
By Bill Wear, 19 August 2021
With the release of MAAS 3.0, we moved LXD virtual machines out of Beta. Several articles in the MAAS documentation address LXD. Since no document ties all...
DHCP Server Conflict Detection
By Bill Wear, 8 July 2021
This blog title should really be, “Why you always, always, always want conflict detection turned on on all the networks MAAS touches,” but that’s really long...
DHCP scope
By Bill Wear, 8 July 2021
It’s possible to have more than one DHCP server on the same network and still have everything work right, with no conflicts and no dropped packets or IP...
Moving toward Diátaxis
By Bill Wear, 7 July 2021
We discovered the Diátaxis Framework earlier this year. It’s been on our roadmap to shift MAAS doc to this cool new way of explaining things. This cycle, we...
MAAS 3.0 released
By Bill Wear, 6 July 2021
We are happy to announce the release of MAAS 3.0. This release provides some new features and bug fixes. Here’s the tl;dr summary: PCI and USB devices are now...